The 2019 edition of the Species on the Move conference series will bring together scientists and natural resource managers working in the disciplines of global change, biogeography and evolution, and in contexts of natural resource management, biodiversity management and conservation, and theoretical ecology.
  The interdisciplinary conference is co-convened by the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) of the University of Tasmania, Australia, and Rhodes University, South Africa, with support from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries and others.
   The conference will focus on species responses to climate change, and address 14 themes:
Detection, attribution and prediction of changes in species distributions;
Understanding ecological and evolutionary mechanisms facilitating or hindering range shifts
Impacts of climate change on community structure and patterns of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity;
The paleo-ecological perspective: species changes in distribution over deep time;
Conservation paradigms and management strategies for a shifting future;
Governance, legal and ethical issues for shifting species and changing ecosystems;
Cultural, social and economic dimensions of changes in species distributions;
Indigenous knowledge and species on the move;
Implications of species on the move for human and animal health;
Changes in species distribution and climate feedbacks; and
The impacts of species on the move for global strategies and policies, including the SDGs, and biodiversity and climate change global processes.
Ecological impacts of species redistributions on recipient ecosystem function and resilience.
Interactions between multiple stressors and range shifts
Protected Areas Planning for Species on the Move: Lessons from the tropics and marine opportunities.
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